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Isengard mod v2.0 WIP Continued


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Nice! But er... I'm afraid your avatar is above the limit. Max avatar file size allowed is 30kb (does no-one look at the Forum Regulations and Policy forum anymore?!).

 

So... if you could change it? :P

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The movie is ready !!!

 

I made 2 versions:

 

Low-Res (400x300) ~27MB

High-Res (800x600) ~42MB

 

I am currentely looking for someone to 'host' thease files on the web, since I dont have a server.

 

Any help on that issue would be most welcome, and would, of course speed up the release of the movie.

 

Movie Details:

 

Programs used: Maya 4.5/Maya 5.0, Photoshop 7.0, After Effects 5.5, IrfanView 3.8, XnView 4.11, VirtualDub 1.5.7, Creative WaveStudio.

 

The model has ~43k polys after optimization. A 1024x1024 (IrfanView generated) single texture was applied on the entire model, utilising it through 3 different materials. Lighting incorperates Mentar Ray 3.2's Final Gathering & Global Illumination and also Depth-Of-Field.

The images were then rendered at 640x480 at Maya .IFF file format, then converted to .TGA, and were run through a couple of functions, all using XnView: Resize (800x600), Color Balance (+30 Red,+30 Blue, +30 Green), Contrast (+25), Sharpen (+50). Then all was inserted into AfteFX, and the Potoshop-Generated Text & Logo were added and the final composition was rendered un-compressed at highest quality, in AfterFX. Then the uncompressed movie was compressed and added music in VirtualDub using Div-X Production-Level compression (at a bit-rate of 8,000), and at once, resized to 400x300 (at the DivX compression options box of VirtualDub), for the 'Low-Res' version.

 

I hope I answered every question you people might have about the prosses of making this movie.

 

One thing I'd like to point out is that I have no formal education of CG (computer-generation) of any kind! Everything I know about using those probrams I know from video tutorials I downloaded from sites like 3dbuzz.com and Digital-Tutors.com, and from my own intuition and experiance...

 

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Since none of the methodes I tried uploadinf the files have worked, so far, I am puting the file Orthanc.avi on my Kazaa shared folder and leaving the program running all night. I tried it with a friend of mine, and it didnt show up when he serched for in on hiz Kazaa... I dont know what the problem could be, but you're all welcome to try and download it. It is a somewhat "lower" quality ("only" 3000bps) but at full 800x600 resolution, and it waighs approx. 17MB. Tell me if you succeed in downloading it...
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Well, Its "Show-Time" people!!!

 

Here is the link to the Highest-Quality, Highest-Resolution version of my Orthanc Fly-By movie:

Orthanc__high-q__800x600.avi

 

P.S: Since it's compressed at the highest quality possible (8000 bps!!!), you might need to push the 'stop' button on the media player a few times, afer it starts (depending on how fast your PC is), to restart the playback, before the movie plays out correctly! I'll soon have a 'lower-quality' version published, that should play out fine on any PC...

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